Bug#837156: libreoffice-common: libreoffice crashes on file open if libreoffice-common is installed but not libreoffice-writer

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

reassign 837156 libreoffice-core
retitle 837156 libreoffice crashes on odt file open if libreoffice-writer isn't installed
tag 837156 + upstream
thanks


Hi,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:35:38PM +0200, Matthias Lang wrote:
> On a system with libreoffice-common installed, but not libreoffice-writer,

You mean -core? -common doesn't do stuff, it contains arch-indep data and
scripts :)

> doing this:
> 
>   libreoffice my_valid_document.odt
> 
> crashes libreoffice instantly with a message 
> 
>   LibreOffice Document Recovery
> 
>   Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed. All the files you were working
>   on will now be saved. The next time LibreOffice is launched, your files will be
>   recovered automatically.
> 
> I expected libreoffice to (a) not crash and (b) say something along the lines of
> "can't open that file because the 'writer' component isn't installed.

Yes, that would be ideal.

Unfortunately it's a general problem that LO doesn't do this. Can you file
a bug upstrem (though I am 99.9% sure there is already one) which I can mark
this bug forwarded to then?

Regards,

Rene

> The solution for me is to install libreoffice-writer. But libreoffice's "I've
> crashed" handling of the situation made it hard to realise that was the problem.

Well, that's why there's "libreoffice" metapackage and libreoffice-core itself
contains (almost) nothing you can do any use of alone.

Regards,

Rene